{"id":67569,"date":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/19\/retour-de-basra\/"},"modified":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"retour-de-basra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2006\/05\/19\/retour-de-basra\/","title":{"rendered":"Retour de Basra"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les pertes britanniques en Irak (et en Afghanistan) sont un sujet tr\u00e8s sensible pour une opinion publique majoritairement oppos\u00e9e \u00e0 ces guerres. The Independent<\/a> d\u00e9crit, aujourd’hui, le retour de cercueils de la r\u00e9gion de Basra, avec, partout pr\u00e9sentes, l’impopularit\u00e9 de cette guerre et celle de Tony Blair. L’impopularit\u00e9 de Blair est telle qu’il \u00e9vite syst\u00e9matiquement tout contact avec le public, surtout dans des circonstances si dramatiques que le retour de cercueils, et cette absence est d\u00e9nonc\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe Independent<\/em> note : \u00ab Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon died two years ago, and Reg Keys, whose son Thomas died in 2003, have received letters inviting them to Highgrove on 29 June. Mrs Gentle said: It is a disgrace that Prince Charles will meet us, but the Prime Minister will not.We have been trying to meet Tony Blair for years.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLe poids de cette guerre (ces guerres lorsque les Britanniques seront plus largement engag\u00e9s en Afghanistan, o\u00f9 les conditions s’aggravent<\/a>) ne cesse de peser \u00e9galement du point de vue politique. Les Britanniques s’inqui\u00e8tent de voir leurs capacit\u00e9s militaires au bord de la rupture, alors que les Italiens annoncent leur retrait.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab There was also political fallout from the Iraqi side of the war on terror’. In Rome, the new Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, pledged to bring all Italian troops home as soon as possible. We consider the war in Iraq and the occupation of the country a great error he said. It has not resolved, but complicated, the situation of security. Terrorism has found a new base in Iraq and new excuses for attacks both inside and outside the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb In London, officials have repeatedly stressed that British forces will see it through to the end in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military commanders, however, are deeply apprehensive about fighting a war on two fronts. They have warned that resources will be at their tightest stretch in maintaining such commitment in both countries.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb The demands on British troops in both countries led to criticism from Sir Menzies Campbell, the leader of the Liberal Democrats. He said: The competing demands of Afghanistan and Iraq have undoubtedly placed a great burden on our armed forces. Sooner or later something has got to give. Only professionalism and commitment have enabled us to meet our obligations.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUn texte de Anatole Kaletsky paru le 11 mai dans The Times<\/a>, sous le titre tr\u00e8s expressif de \u00ab Macblair, a walking shadow<\/em> \u00bb, est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 par certaines sources comme exprimant l’avertissement de l’establishment<\/em> britannique \u00e0 Tony Blair. Le Premier ministre, dit ce texte, a fait son temps et doit partir. Et son successeur, Gordon Brown, doit asseoir sa popularit\u00e9 sur une mesure prioritaire : le retrait des forces britanniques d’Irak et la rupture avec l’\u00e9quipe Bush et ses folies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00ab By pulling out of Iraq and breaking publicly with the Bush Administration (which by then will itself be in terminal decline), Mr Brown could win himself so much credit with the Labour Party and the affluent middle classes that he could do almost anything else he might choose with the health service, taxes, pensions or schools. Mr Major’s fate was sealed by the way he stuck to a policy that was doomed to failure membership of the ERM.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb If Mr Brown heeds the rhymes of history, he will ditch the foreign policy that has been responsible for Mr Blair’s demise. If he does this, he could yet turn a funeral dirge into a song of triumph.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tMis en ligne le 19 mai 2006 \u00e0 05H54<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Les pertes britanniques en Irak (et en Afghanistan) sont un sujet tr\u00e8s sensible pour une opinion publique majoritairement oppos\u00e9e \u00e0 ces guerres. The Independent d\u00e9crit, aujourd’hui, le retour de cercueils de la r\u00e9gion de Basra, avec, partout pr\u00e9sentes, l’impopularit\u00e9 de cette guerre et celle de Tony Blair. L’impopularit\u00e9 de Blair est telle qu’il \u00e9vite syst\u00e9matiquement… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5396,5394,705,4038,857,5397,5395],"class_list":["post-67569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-anatole","tag-basra","tag-blair","tag-brown","tag-irak","tag-kaletsky","tag-macblair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}